Journal self-citations strongly affect journal evaluation indicators (such as impact factors) at
the meso-and micro-levels, and therefore they are often increased artificially to inflate the
evaluation indicators in journal evaluation systems. This coercive self-citation is a form of
scientific misconduct that severely undermines the objective authenticity of these indicators.
In this study, we developed the feature space for describing journal citation behavior and
conducted feature selection by combining GA-Wrapper with RelifF. We also constructed a …